X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/116672d7d72d8181607f69ad22ad8bd0bb9d8348..6d672be5f74146f69df5411f99449d43853d21b0:/doc/security.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/security.mdwn b/doc/security.mdwn index 916bd0484..afefd1bc3 100644 --- a/doc/security.mdwn +++ b/doc/security.mdwn @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ runs ikiwiki to update a given wiki. The wrapper can in turn be made suid, for example to be used in a [[post-commit]] hook by people who cannot write to the html pages, etc. -If the wrapper script is made suid, then any bugs in this wrapper would be +If the wrapper program is made suid, then any bugs in this wrapper would be security holes. The wrapper is written as securely as I know how, is based on code that has a history of security use long before ikiwiki, and there's been no problem yet. @@ -471,5 +471,29 @@ who could upload a malicious stylesheet to a site to add it to a page as an alternate stylesheet, or replacing the default stylesheet. This hole was discovered on 28 Mar 2011 and fixed the same hour with -the release of ikiwiki 3.20110328. An upgrade is recommended for sites -that have untrusted committers, or have the attachments plugin enabled. +the release of ikiwiki 3.20110328. A fix was backported to Debian squeeze, +as version 3.20100815.6. An upgrade is recommended for sites that have +untrusted committers, or have the attachments plugin enabled. +([[!cve CVE-2011-1401]]) + +## tty hijacking via ikiwiki-mass-rebuild + +Ludwig Nussel discovered a way for users to hijack root's tty when +ikiwiki-mass-rebuild was run. Additionally, there was some potential +for information disclosure via symlinks. ([[!cve CVE-2011-1408]]) + +This hole was discovered on 8 June 2011 and fixed the same day with +the release of ikiwiki 3.20110608. Note that the fix is dependant on +a version of su that has a similar hole fixed. Version 4.1.5 of the shadow +package contains the fixed su; [[!debbug 628843]] tracks fixing the hole in +Debian. An upgrade is a must for any sites that have `ikiwiki-update-wikilist` +installed suid (not the default), and whose admins run `ikiwiki-mass-rebuild`. + +## javascript insertion via meta tags + +Raúl Benencia discovered an additional XSS exposure in the meta plugin. +([[!cve CVE-2012-0220]]) + +This hole was discovered on 16 May 2012 and fixed the same day with +the release of ikiwiki 3.20120516. A fix was backported to Debian squeeze, +as version 3.20100815.9. An upgrade is recommended for all sites.